Internet Archive's in-browser bookreader "theater" requires JavaScript to be enabled. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature.

A description of Patagonia, and the adjoining parts of South America : containing an account of the soil, produce, animals, vales, mountains, rivers, lakes, &c. of those countries; the religion, government, policy, customs, dress, arms, and language of the Indian inhabitants; and some particulars relating to Falkland's Islands.

by: Falkner, Thomas, 1707-1784; Combe, William, 1742-1823

Publication date: 1774

Topics: Patagonians, Indian linguistics, Imprint 1774

Publisher: Hereford : Printed by C. Pugh; [London] : and sold by T. Lewis, Russell-Street, London.

Collection: jcbindigenous; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: English

Volume: Copy 1

Edited by William Combe

Signatures: pi² a² B-2O² (pi1 verso, pi2 verso, G2 verso, H2 verso blank)

Map unnumbered, consisting of two separate leaves (northern and southern sections of Patagonia). Second leaf has title: A new map of the southern parts of America ... London[.] Engraved by Thos. Kitchin, hydrographer to His Majesty. 1772. Publish'd as the Act directs, Decr. 10. 1772. and sold by Thos. Lewis, bookseller, in Russell Street, Covent Garden

Preface (p. [1]-23) written by Robert Berkeley

Chapter VI: "An account of the language of the inhabitants of these countries." (p. [132]-144)

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800

Sabin

Backer-Sommervogel

ESTC

Furlong Cardiff, G. La personalidad y la obra de Tomás Falkner

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 bound in contemporary paper boards. Leaf X1 repaired in lower outside corner, without loss of text

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 bound in contemporary calf. Title page has small label pasted to bottom, giving information about the work

John Carter Brown copy 1 gift of Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis through the Associates of the John Carter Brown Library